Paul J. Zelanski
Picture books are funny and brilliant works of literature, or at least it can be. As with all books are some great some good and some really bad. These are ten of the oldest of the children and adults. Stories that you must read and see the visual narrative, that are wonderfully touching stories, beautiful, or just plain fun. These are not necessarily of the ten best books of photography are however ten of the best visual stories with stories that will be remembered forever.
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
A fantastic visual narrative and well-written text makes this one of the best photo books of all time. Account a simple story of a mother and child picking berries and meeting a couple of bears. The simplicity of the story is what makes it work as well as a story, and what makes it so appealing.
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
McCloskey Another story, this book even has a statue dedicated to him in Boston and which tells the story of a family of ducks that live in this city in a wonderful and whimsical.
A letter to Amy Jack Keats
The story of a boy For the first time, wants to invite a girl for her birthday, and the difficulty of sending the letter to himself. Jack Keats had a special ability to discuss concerns common way that children made their unique stories.
Floatsom by David Wiesner
Wiesner is perhaps the most imaginative creator children's literature today. With three Caldecott medals is a must, for his stories often are visual only, no or very little text. Floatsom is the story of a child who finds a camera in the ocean, and the magical world that the camera shows, foreigners into the realms of siren this book takes the viewer on lavishly illustrated travel and imagination.
Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth
A fun picture book that offers a series of parables of China in a fun and unique. It all begins when you move a panda in the door with three children (he speaks with a slight panda accent) and friendship develops between them.
"Doctor De Soto William Steig
The story of a dentist who takes the mouse on a fox as a patient, and the game of fox and mouse between them as Dr. Hernando de Soto (mouse) avoids being eaten.
"Snowflake Bentley, illustrated by Mary Azarian, text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin.
With beautiful illustrations, This book tells the story of the man who discovered the photographic technique to take pictures of snow flakes.
"Repunzel" by Paul O. Zelansky
With the stunningly beautiful illustrations done in the Renaissance style of this picture book tells the story of favorite fairy tale like no other before it has been able to do so.
"Jumangi" by Chris Van Allsburg
Thanks to films based on his books Allsburgs stories are well known, even if not well understood themselves. His art is so hyper real and well represented as to appear almost dreamlike. "Jumangi" tells the story of a brother and sister that are a magical board game that brings the jungle and all its creatures crashing through his house.
Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales "by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
A postmodern picture book style that plays with the third wall, both in its illustrations and its text. For example, the page acknowledgments including the narrator says that nobody reads anyway thanks for what I write upside down. He will tell the reader that "if you want read that you can stay in your head. "If you're reading this book with a child it would be fun to actually stand on her head to read them.
These are just some of the big picture books that exist and is important to always look for more, because the visual narratives beautiful and fun is something that never must leave the.
Ty Hulse has degrees in both art and psychology, and has used them to help create many educational materials for children. Currently he is running the website http://www.discoverpicturebooks.com which discusses picture books.
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